Controller and data collected
The controller is Vanburgh Counsel, Rue du Rhône 118, 1204 Genève, Switzerland (office@vanburgh.ch, +41 22 319 7420). Through the contact form and our correspondence we collect the name, e-mail address, telephone number and the content of the message you send us, together with technical data such as IP address, browser type and the pages visited on vanburgh.ch.
Purposes and legal bases
We process your data to answer enquiries, to prepare and perform legal engagements, to issue invoices and to comply with statutory duties. Processing is based on your consent, on the performance of a contract or on our legitimate interest in operating the firm, in each case as provided by the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP/DSG) and, where an EU client is involved, by Article 6 of the GDPR.
Storage and disclosure
Enquiry data is kept for up to twelve months if no engagement follows; client files are retained for ten years as required by Swiss professional and accounting rules. We do not sell data. It may be disclosed to our hosting provider, our accountants, notaries or authorities where the law or the matter requires, always under confidentiality and only to the extent necessary.
Your rights
You may request access to your data, its correction, deletion or restriction, object to processing, withdraw consent at any time and ask for a copy in a portable format. Write to office@vanburgh.ch and we will reply within thirty days; you may also lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner or, for EU residents, with your national supervisory authority.